Lot 4394

Description

Sicily, Syracuse, (c.485-478 B.C. revised date 467-461), silver tetradrachm, (16.970 grams), obv. fast walking quadriga driven to right by bearded male charioteer, Nike flying right crowning horses, rev. **SUPAKOSI O N* around to right, head of Artemis-Arethusa to right, hair slightly waved and turned up behind under diadem of beads, four dolphins around, (cf.S.914, Boehringer 276 same dies [obverse 127/reverse 189 dies]). Light grey tone, good very fine/very fine and very rare.

Boehringer notes only one other known example from these dies and that in the Brussels Collection. See note above.